Week Beginning 19 September 2016

From Wednesday 21 September to Friday 23 September next week we will have our official school photographers Pret-a-Portrait in school. They will be taking individual student photographs for all students.
Your child will be involved in this round of photos and so we ask that you ensure they are smartly dressed and wearing appropriate school uniform on Wednesday 21 September to Friday 23 September.

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MESSAGES

Homework will be given out on Wednesdays and expected in on Mondays.

Please ensure that your child has the correct school uniform. In particular please ensure your child is wearing black shoes. Girls should wear plain white socks and boys should wear black or grey socks. You can review the school’s uniform policy here.

Please remember to send in and label your child’s snack box and water bottle, as well as a hat during the hot weather.

If for any reason your child is unable to take part in PE, please send a signed message in your child’s communication book. Your child still needs to bring in their PE kit to enable them to participate as a coach, an official or to give feedback. If your child would be swimming, they should bring their normal PE kit.

LITERACY

This week the children will be continuing their investigation of non-fiction texts. They will start to create their paragraphs on Appearance and Diet & Teeth for their class dinosaur. Building upon the text map work they consolidated last week, children will amend the text map to suit their dinosaur. This will involve them creating their own text map, to aid their sentence and paragraph structuring. By the end of the week, the children will have written a paragraph about their dinosaur’s appearance and will have created a text map for their paragraph on Diet and Teeth.

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MATHS

This week we will be investigating the children’s knowledge and understanding of addition and subtraction. They will be consolidating their prior knowledge from Year 2 before moving on to the column method for addition and subtraction. As well as practising the column method children will acquire a deeper level of understanding by applying their knowledge.

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THEMED LEARNING

In Themed Learning, the children will be designing and making negative stencils and collographs of dinosaur footprints, plants from the Mesozoic times and fossils. These will be used to create prints and rubbings using paint and wax. The final piece of artwork will be used as a background paper to present their dinosaur non-chronological report.

KEY VOCABULARY

Stencil, negative, rubbing, printing, collographs, Mesozoic

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND DIGITAL LITERACY

This week the children will be continuing to learn how to use Microsoft Word. They will be focussing on changing font, font size and colour, as well as inserting pictures and WordArt into a document. The children will also consolidate opening and saving files.

KEY VOCABULARY

Keyboard, font, insert, image, WordArt, document, file

PSHCE

Through both Literacy and Art, the children will be learning how to give each other feedback that is kind, specific and helpful. During our printing unit we will reflect on what has gone well and help others to decide how they can improve their work based on the shared success criteria.

MFL

Year 3 Spanish – Ms Caldwell

Next week the children will revise the key vocabulary surrounding animals. They will perform the ‘Old MacDonald’ song, viewing it back on the smartbaord. They will also begin work to recognise the vocabulary in written phrases.

There will be no homework this weekend due to the holidays.

Year 3 / 4 Spanish – Ms Martinez

Next week we will revise the vocabulary for animals and look at the names of the colours.

There will be no homework this weekend due to the holidays.

Year 3 French – Ms De Borger

Next week we will extend the `Old Mac Donald ` song, adding more animals and their sounds. We will practise animal names, focusing on the pronunciation of the French ‘ch` sound .